Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I'm easily entertained.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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You never know what the future brings.
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One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.
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It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
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Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.
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Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
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The emotional stuff is the biggest challenge, for me to access that. As life passes, you encounter difficulties and tragedies, and so it becomes easier. 'Carnivale' required that of me, and it was really hard.
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I've always enjoyed seeing how things are made.
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When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.
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Man's life? A candle in the wind, hoar-frost on stone.
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Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll have a lot more fun in life.
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The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
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You have to go as hard as you possibly can, or it's going to be weak. Whenever I find myself not committing fully to a character, it's not as funny. It doesn't have that clear point of view, and you find yourself wandering all over the place, whereas committed characters make strong choices that are clear to the audience.
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Your child's not looking at you and going, 'Mmm, I love a clavicle. Let me nestle into that.'
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Like with 'Parks and Recreation,' it's so much fun because the people writing it are funny and they're open and you just go in there and have a good time. It's pretty much the easiest job I've ever had.
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People will always put you in a box that they think you fit in, and it's up to you to not fall into it.
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I'm obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, I'd love to go to space.
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It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.
